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Brian Barrett

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

And for any questions and comments, you can always reach us at uncannyvalleyatwired.com.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Thank you for listening.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

On to the show.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

And I missed you the exact same amount.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Wow.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I'm Brian Barrett, Executive Editor.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

We'll also get into why SpaceX and Cursor's potential $60 billion deal announced this week is pretty staggering.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

And we'll get into Palantir's controversial 22-point manifesto.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I feel like manifesto is inherently controversial.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Otherwise, they'd be memos that they posted on X this week.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

If you'd picked up, sorry, I wouldn't have planned to.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Well, I think the fact that it's Ternus in general already sort of speaks to that a little bit.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Ternus is a longtime hardware engineer, right?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

That's continuing Apple's history of sort of product people versus AI people, software people.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

And I don't think that's a bad thing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I think on the one hand, yes, Apple is behind in this AI race.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

On the other hand, Apple hasn't set fire to hundreds of billions of dollars in pursuit of a race that maybe doesn't even need to win, right?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

A parallel might be... So Apple never made a search engine, right?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Like, search is one of the biggest businesses in the world.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Apple never made a search engine, right?